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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Categories: bounded or graded?
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Date: 29 Apr 92 16:05:34 GMT
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In article <1992Apr28.193247.360@norton.com> brian@norton.com (Brian Yoder) writes:
>A game is a goal-directed activity where the ostensive goal (eg. taking the 
>king, making a goal, putting the doll to bed) is not the actual goal being 
>pursued (eg. relaxation, elimination of boredom, enjoyment, learning, etc.).
>
>I can't think of any good counter examples, can you?

Yes: Taking a college course.  (Ostensive goal: getting a good grade; actual
goal: learning.)  Pat Buchanan's presidential race.  (Ostensive goal: getting
elected; actual goal: influence party policy.)  Stalinist show trials.
(Ostensive goal: punish criminals; actual goal: create sham threats to state
to justify tight state control.)  This posting.  (Ostensive goal: find 
counterexamples to a definition; actual goal: undermine faith in ease of 
defining complex concepts.)

Sorry for the political examples-- it's just that politics is a rich field
for finding mismatched stated and true goals!


